Tends to happen when you open the conversation by calling someone a “liar for their murderous leader.”

McCarthyism hasn’t been exlusively about the Kremlin since… well since way before McCarthy even died. And it’s a moot task for me to try to convince a paranoiac who eschews facts.

The article is about China and TikTok’s behavior, not “the Kremlin”, and the behavior described in the article is mundane ad-buying. You can quite literally sift through the TikTok ad library yourself to confirm this. Instead you rely on vagueries and call people secret Kremlin agents who are very invested in changing your perspective, like a schizophrenic.

When it comes to deadly “mistakes” in a military context there should be strong laws preventing “appeal to AI fuckery”, so that militaries don’t get comfortable making such “mistakes.”

Anyone who uses Arabic-language social media has encountered this. They used to ban you for just making reference to “Al Aqsa” (Arabic name for Dome of the Rock) because their algorithm deemed it terror-related. They banned the word “shaheed” (martyr) too even though in Arabic it’s commonly used to refer to loved ones who died an untimely death, even in accidents. It’s also a name, which is hilarious because a member of their oversight board said in an interview that after they banned the word one of her coworkers named Shaheed had to explained that this was nonsense. Researchers did an experiment where they ran pages that used uncontroverdial Arabic keywords that would get censored, then do the same for Hebrew (including #death_to_arabs) which were left up and even gained traction.

You can blame Meta to some degree, but the chief issue are US federal institutions that use notices and scare stories aimed at making risk-averse firms shut down anything deemed anti-American (which essentially means anti-Israel.) Just recently they’ve been sending FBI agents to knock on journalists’ doors if they publish the leaked Vance dossier and give them a “friendly reminder” that it may have been leaked by Iran. Even when the journalists mentioned it in their reports on the dossier.

That’s always a rational and logical place to take the conversation - viscious McCarthyist paranoia! Who knows, I could even be Xi himself, trying to make you lower your guard so I can feed you an ad for my dastardly electric car companies while you scroll past memes and tits.

The articles simply describe Chinese media firms buying ads on Tiktok. You can literally search through the ad library and find media firms from basically every country that can afford it.

There is quite literally zero evidence that Tiktok “spreads propaganda” relating to the Russia-Ukraine war of its own volition. There are literally millions of pro-Russia users around the world - i.e India where a huge percent of users come from and where the population is split on which side of the war is to blame - who are responsible.

China doesn’t “write rules” even in its own region. Neither does the US. Newspapers like this one are trapped in a ridiculous false dichotomy. Go look at the regional agreements that govern trade and data which China and the US are both not a part of

US is not happy about this lol.

The strong win and the weak cry about injustice.

Wow! You’ve just changed me entire outlook on the Holocaust!

This isn’t “dissent” really. To start with, the decision was made by basically Sinwar and a few of his pala. Haniyah and the political leadership were caught off guard and knew it was a totally inopportune time to attack. I talked to a political analyst who knows Khaled Meshal well and he told me that 1) the operation spiralled out of control because they met such little resistance and ran into the music rave 2) the militant leadership inside Gaza were myopic and led by a guy who had spent 22 years of his life in prison and didn’t have the full strategic picture. This was the least opportune moment possible in every way I can think of, down to who is in the White House. If it was Trump it would have at least greatly damaged US Israel relations through the partisanship factor.

The context for that is a genocide case at the ICJ, which is at the same stage of ajudication as the case against Myanmar, for which all sorts of sanctions have been implemented…

They started shooting children in the heart and head since 2018. Now its a weekly occurance.

I don’t even know why they try to hide it. Read the UN report about their 2018 bkrder massacre of demknstrating Gazans, they aimed at and executed children, medics, journalists in press vests and even a double amputee in a wheelchair 300 meters away from them.

“Holocaust-inversion” is one of those phrases that just immediately marks you as a hasbarist.

What the hell are you even talking about? Where do you people get the idea that Hezbollah and every other Islamist entity is like ISIS? Do you know a single thing about Lebanon???

File under “It’s Okay When Israel Does It: Entry #6367821 (October 2024)”

Iran blowing up Nevatim airbase (where US shipments of bombs mostly came in) is a moral victory regardless of their reasons. Better use of their power than helping Assad treat his own citizens in a slightly-less monstrous way than what’s been done to Gaza. Reminds me a bit of when Trump struck Syrian airbases actually.

Also a show-y, escalatory move from a morally dubious power but nevertheless was appreciated by us who actually live in this region and know people slaughtered in merciless airstrikes.

How many? Because at this point Israel has proven that less than ten were “Hamas terrorists”, and only one of those was proven to be an actual combatant and not just a desk jockey.